Grants for Student Researchers

Health & Social Sciences:

Funder: American Academy of Implant Dentistry Research FoundationTitle: Student Research GrantsWebpage:http://www.aaid.com/research_foundation/Grants_and_Activities.htmlPurpose: The mission of the Academy is to advance the practice of implant dentistry through education, credentialing, and advocacy on behalf of patients and practitioners.Eligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Medical Sciences, Biomedicine, Dentistry, Implant Dentistry

Funder: American Association for Dental ResearchTitle: Bloc Travel Grant for StudentsWebpage:http://www.dentalresearch.org/Purpose: The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) has received a grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) to support travel for dental students to the IADR/AADR/CADRGeneral Session & Exhibitions for presentation of scientific papers on dental research.Eligibility: Graduate Students, Undergraduate StudentsDiscipline area: Medical Sciences, Biomedicine, Dentistry, Clinical Dentistry, Health, Dental Health and Hygiene

Funder: American Political Science AssociationTitle: Travel Grants for International Graduate StudentsWebpage:http://www.apsanet.org/section_542.cfmPurpose: Travel Grants for International Graduate Students are available for the Annual Meetings. These grants provide help in attending the Annual Meeting and are intended as supplemental funding, not as fully paid travel.Eligibility: Non-U.S. graduate students who are also APSA members and who are studying in American doctoral programs. Discipline area: Social Sciences, Political Science

Funder: American Psychological Association Title: Graduate Research Scholarships & Student Travel AwardsWebsite:http://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-stutrav.aspxPurpose: The purpose of the Travel Award program is to help psychology graduate students travel to the annual APA Convention to present their research.Eligibility: Graduate students that are in good standing. Discipline area: Social science, Psychology

Funder: American Psychological FoundationTitle: Paul E. Henkin Student Travel AwardWebpage:http://www.apa.org/apf/Purpose: The $500 grant supports a graduate student member of Division 16 to attend the APA annual convention. The funds can be used to pay for convention registration, lodging and transportation costs. Funds cannot be used for food, drink, supplies, or other expenses incurred while attending the APA convention. The award is not renewable.Eligibility: Graduate Students Discipline area: Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Education

Funder: American Society for MicrobiologyTitle: Student and Post Doctoral Fellow Travel Grants (ICAAC)Webpage:http://www.asm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14956&Itemid=337Purpose: Through the ASM Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant program, the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), the ICAAC Program Committee will award travel grants worth at least $600 to support students’ attendance at the ICAAC.Eligibility: Graduate Students, Undergraduate StudentsDiscipline area: Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology

Funder: American Speech-Language-Hearing FoundationTitle: Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development *GRANT NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE*Webpage:http://www.ashfoundation.org/recipients/StudentResearchGrantEarlyChildhoodLanguage.htmPurpose: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation invites master's and doctoral students to compete for the Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development, supported by the Arlene Matkin Memorial Fund. The competition is for support of research to be initiated in the area of early childhood language developmentEligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Communication Development

Funder: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Title: Student Research Grant in Audiology *GRANT NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE*Webpage:http://www.ashfoundation.org/recipients/StudentResearchGrantAudiology.htmPurpose: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF) invites interested masters and doctoral degree students to compete for the 2006 Student Research Grant in Audiology, supported by the Ira M. Ventry and Brad Friedrich Memorial Funds. The competition is for support of research to be initiated in the area of clinical and/or rehabilitative audiology. Eligibility: Graduate Students Discipline area: Medical Sciences; Biomedicine; Audiology

Funder: Canadian GovernmentTitle: Canadian Studies Grant Programs Website:http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/index.aspxPurpose: The Research Grant Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to assist individual scholars, or a team of scholars, in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality and reporting their findings in a scholarly publication and at scholarly conferences.Eligibility: This program is intended for full-time faculty members at accredited U.S. four-year colleges and universities, as well as scholars at American research institutions. Recent Ph.D. recipients who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States are also eligible to apply.Discipline area: Social sciences, Humanities. We are particularly interested in projects that have policy relevance for Canada-U.S. relations as well as Canadian social, economic, political, security, and quality of life issues. Topics particularly relevant to Canada-U.S. relations include trade and economics, defense and security, border management, energy, softwood lumber, environment, and agriculture.

Funder: Field Psych TrustTitle: Research Grants for Graduate StudentsWebpage:http://www.fieldpsychtrust.org/Purpose: The Field Psych Trust provides grant funding for promising graduate students exploring the history, contributions, and further development of Perceptual (Field) Psychology in relationship to the research and writings of Arthur W. Combs, PhD. Graduate students with an interest in exploring the link between human experience/meaning/perception (currently referred to as "dispositions") and human behavior may qualify for support for class papers and projects, master's theses, and dissertations. Eligibility: Graduate Students Discipline area: Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Title: Medical Student FellowshipsWebpage:http://www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/medfellows.htmlPurpose: Supports a year of full-time fundamental biomedical research for medical students, & continued support for a second year of research training or completion of medical studies, with the goal of strengthening & expanding the nation's pool of medically trained researchers.Eligibility: Students working for doctoral degrees in the biological sciences.Discipline area: Sciences, Biomedical

Purpose: Grants of up to $1,000 are awarded graduate student research, with strong preference for students at the dissertation state.SPSSI supports scientific research in social problem areas related to the basics interests and goals of SPSSI.Eligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Psychology, and other Social Sciences

Natural Sciences, Technology, Engineering, & Math:

Funder: American Ornithologists UnionTitle: Student Membership AwardsWebpage: http://www.aou.org/Purpose: The Council of the American Ornithologists' Union has voted to provide one-year student membership awards to qualified undergraduate or graduate students interested in pursuing a career in ornithology. Eligibility: Undergraduate or graduate studentsDiscipline area: Environmental Sciences, Biology

Funder: American Society of Heating Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc.Title: Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award ProgramWebpage: http://www.ashrae.org/Purpose: The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) provides an annual grant to 10-25 full-time graduate students of ASHRAE-related technologies. The grant is intended to encourage the student to continue his or her preparation for service in the HVAC&R industry.Eligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Education, Educational Curriculum Studies, Engineering Education, Engineering, Heat Engineering, Air Conditioning Systems

Funder: American Society for Information Science and Technology Title: Pratt Severn Best Student Research PaperWebpage: http://www.asis.org/awards/bestresearchpaper.htmlPurpose: The award consists of round-trip travel expenses and full registration for the ASIS&T annual meeting, not to exceed $500, to be paid by Pratt Institute; a certificate; and possible submission of the paper for publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIST).Eligibility: Graduate Students Discipline area: Information Technology, Information Science, Information Theory

Funder: American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote SensingTitle: The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, ASPRS Student Travel GrantsWebpage: http://www.asprs.org/Purpose: The intent of this program is to increase student exposure to the profession, and to encourage continued student identification with and membership in, ASPRS as their national professional organization. Eligibility: Graduate Students, Undergraduate StudentsDiscipline area: Geospatial Technology, Photogrammetry

Funder: Argonne National Laboratory Title: International Student Exchange Program

Purpose: Research internship & foreign practicum training to graduate students in the scientific & technical fields of mutual interest to U.S. and foreign countries.Eligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Science, nuclear engineering

Funder: Council on Undergraduate ResearchTitle: Posters on the HillWebpage: http://www.cur.org/Purpose: The Council on Undergraduate Research invites undergraduate students to submit abstracts describing research conducted in collaboration with faculty in the natural and social sciences, technology and mathematics. CUR will competitively select sixty research projects for participation in poster sessions with Congress and State Representatives. Students and their faculty mentors will display posters on the U.S. Capitol and visit Representatives' and Senators' offices.Eligibility: Undergraduate students Discipline area: Social Sciences, Math, Technology

Funder: Department of EnergyTitle: Faculty and Student Teams ProgramWebsite: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/fast/about.htmlPurpose: The program provides hands-on research opportunities in DOE national laboratories during the summer. The faculty member identifies a mutually beneficial research area amenable to collaboration by the faculty member and the laboratory scientistEligibility: Team comprised of one faculty member & 2-3 undergraduate (not graduate) studentsDiscipline area: Science

Funder: Earthwatch InstituteTitle: Student Challenge Awards Program (SCAP) GrantsWebpage: http://www.earthwatch.org/aboutus/research/scientistopps/scapgrants/Purpose: Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that supports scholarly field research worldwide in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. Since 1990, the Student Challenge Awards Program has offered students the opportunity to experience scientific research first-hand.Eligibility: Undergraduate, GraduateDiscipline area: Earth Sciences, Earth Observation, Life Sciences, Biology, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies

Funder: Geo-society Association Title: Graduate Student Research GrantsWebsite: http://www.geosociety.org/grants/gradgrants.htmPurpose: The primary role of the GSA research grants program is to provide partial support of master's and doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences for graduate students at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.Eligibility: Graduate students only Discipline area: Science, Geology

Funder: Illuminating Engineering Society of North AmericaTitle: Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education GrantWebpage: http://www.iesna.org/programs/a-howard.cfmPurpose: The Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education Grant was established to encourage and recognize students who have evidenced high professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied lighting design problem. The purpose of the Grant is to foster good lighting and advance the appreciation of lighting as an art.Eligibility: Undergraduate, Graduate studentsDiscipline area: Arts, Architecture, Lighting Design

Funder: Mazamas Title: Graduate Student Research GrantsWebpage: http://www.mazamas.org/Purpose: The Mazamas is a mountaineering organization based in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to the exploration and preservation of mountain environments in the Pacific Northwest. Investigations of geologic features, biotic communities, and human endeavors pertaining to these natural landscapes are relevant research topics. The Mazamas Graduate Research Grants are intended to help graduate students cover travel and per diem costs of conducting master's thesis or doctoral dissertation research. Eligibility: Graduate StudentsDiscipline area: Earth Sciences, Geology, Environmental Sciences, Ecology

Funder: Mineralogical Society of AmericaTitle: Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy and PetrologyWebpage: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Awards/Grant_Appl.htmlPurpose: The Mineralogical Society of America offers grants for research in mineralogy and petrology from a fund created by contributions from MSA members. Eligibility: Graduate Students, Undergraduate StudentsDiscipline area: Earth Sciences, Geology

Funder: NASATitle: Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP)Website: http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/gsrp/program/Purpose: The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) awards fellowships for graduate study leading to masters or doctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering related to NASA research and development.Eligibility: Graduate students Disciplinary area: Science, Mathematics, Engineering related to NASA research and development

Funder: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Title: MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR)Website: http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Minority/MARCPurpose: To prepare students for entry into graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. in a biomedical science.Eligibility: Undergraduate students who are members of minority groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciencesDiscipline area: Science, Biomedical Sciences.

Education:

Funder: Fulbright U.S.Title: Fulbright U.S. Student ProgramWebsite: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.htmlPurpose: Program is designed to give recent BS/BA graduates, master's & doctoral candidates, & young professionals/artists opportunities for personal development & international experience in over 140 countries. Most grantees plan their own programs.Eligibility: Students who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs at U.S. colleges or universities and U.S. students studying at institutions outside of the U.S. Applicants who have already graduated may apply through their alma materDiscipline area: Open to all fields of study

Funder: The NEA FoundationTitle: Learning and Leadership/Student Achievement GrantsWebsite:http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htmPurpose: The NEA Foundation provides grants to improve the academic achievement of students in U.S. public schools and public higher education institutions in any subject area(s). The proposed work should engage students in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen their knowledge of standards-based subject matter. Eligibility: Undergraduate and graduate studentsDiscipline area: Social sciences, Education

Funder:American Educational Research Association (AERA)Title: Dissertation GrantsWebsite:http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.htmlPurpose: Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the doctoral dissertation and equal up to $15,000 per year.Eligibility: Applicants for Dissertation Grants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizensDiscipline area: Education, Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Demography, Statistics, Psychometrics

Funder:Association for Institutional ResearchTitle: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions Website:http://www.airweb.org/?page=818Purpose: Supports postsecondary education professionals & doctoral students to conduct research using national databases at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) & NSF. Program goals: to provide professional development opportunities to Ph.D. students, institutional researchers, educators & administrators, & to foster the use of the federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education. Discipline area: Education

Arts:

Funder: University Film and Video AssociationTitle: Carol Fielding Student GrantsWebpage: http://www.ufva.org/Purpose: The University Film and Video Association offer grants for student projects. Up to $4,000 is available for film, video, or multimedia production and up to $1,000 is available for research projects in historical, critical, theoretical or experimental studies of film and video.Eligibility: Undergraduate students, Graduate students Discipline area: Fine Arts, Mass Media